🔤 Pernickety (Adjective)

IPA: //pəˈnɪkɪti//

✨ Use pernickety when someone’s attention to detail turns into obsession—or when they just won’t let it go.

🧠 Meaning

Fussy or overly concerned with minor details; difficult to please.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 The editor was so pernickety that every comma had to be perfectly placed.

🔹 He’s too pernickety to enjoy camping—one bug and he's done.

📜 Word Origin

Originally Scottish, from pernicket, likely an alteration of particular. It gained popularity in British English during the 19th century.

💡 Did You Know?

Pernickety is the British version of the American persnickety—both mean someone who fusses over the small stuff.

🏷️ Related Words

#fussy #finicky #fastidious #picky #meticulous #nitpicky

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